Improvement in loading attachments to hay-wagons



IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe JAMES MADISON MILLER, OFGREEN WOODTOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA IMPROVEMENT IN LOADINGATTACHMENTS TO HAY-WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,936, dated May 22,1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MADISON MIL- LER, of Greenwood township, inthe county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a newand Improved Hay and Wagon Loader; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description of the same,reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing and the letters of' reference markedthereon.

The drawing represents one side ot' a common hay rack with my inventionattached thereto and in Working order, the same being represented onlyso far as is necessary to fully understand the construction andoperation of the same.

M M is a eogged driving-wheel bolted onto the spokes of the hind wheelof a wagon, and may be removed or put on at pleasure.

N is a smaller cogged wheel, which gears into the wheel M M. The wheel Nis a drumwheel, or has a drum on the rim, around which the rope H H iswound as the wheel revolves. rIhis wheel is thrown in and out of gearwith the wheel M M by means of the lever D and bar E E, the wheel Nbeing` attached to the bar E E.

P O O is a crane att-ached to the wagonrack A A so that it will revolveeasily. 1 2 3 are pulleys to guide the rope H H onto the drumwheel N.

To operate 1n yinvention the wagonis placed alongside of a hay-cock orwindrow and the fork S forced into the same by a man on the ground. Thedriver on the wagon now throws the wheel N in gear with the wheel M M bymeans ot' the lever D being placed in the position shown in the drawing,when the rope H H is wound up and the forkful of hay or grain hoisted upto the end of the crane-arm P, when the crane is swungin and the haydropped in the rack or on the load. When this is done and the forkreleased the lever D is drawn back to the latch G on the semicircle F,and the wheel vN thereby thrown out of gear, and the fork is drawn down(the wheel N revolving,` easily on the bar E E) until the rope isunwound and the machine is again ready for use.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Pa-tent ofthe United States, 1s-

The wheel M M, attached to the wagonwheel, in combination with the wheelN, the lever D, and bar E E, and the-crane P 0 O, when the same areconstructed in the aforesaid combination and for the purposes set forth,in the manner described.

JAMES MADISON MILLER.

Witnesses:

A. B. RICHMOND, IRA H. PEIRcE.

